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SANUR

chillax adventures, amazing sunrises and gazebo beach

We spent pretty much all of our time here at the beach. As you can see it was beautiful and amazing.We stayed at an airbnb off the main road.We got up a couple times to watch the sunset, ate great food, shopped, got facials and had little walk abouts of our own.The flower offerings were everywhere. The trash gardens, a mish mosh of beautiful flourishing wild life and trash, were everywhere. The taksi drivers were everywhere. The dogs were everywhere and the amazing photo opportunities, everywhere.

TINY BANANAS ON TURTLE ISLAND

Unbeknownst to me, Brittany's power animal was a turtle. So when I suggested going to Turtle Island she was thrilled.
Once we got there we were shown around by a woman who said things like:
"Bali men have small dickie, like tiny banana. American have donkey dick. But tiny banana good for ass."
She is pictured below, behind me with the picture of the bird.
They had fruit bats there as well. You will see us taking a photo pre-bat attack and then Colleen's reaction during the bat attack.

UBUD PART ONE

Rice paddies, batik-ing and
the beginning of the retreat

We stayed a little outside of Ubud at the beautiful Abing Terrace, surrounded by lush vegetation and rice paddies.
In Ubud, I communed with cows, pigs, monkeys and as you can see, a dragonfly.
We did Batik at Nirvana, climbed the 2nd largest volcano on the island, (story below on that one) and were invited into the home of some strangers that happened to be Bali royalty of some kind.

TEMBOK

The beautiful Poinciana Resort,
snorkeling, visiting a waterfall
and lots of staring at the ocean.

In the Tembok region, we stayed at the most magical, beautiful, awesomest place - The Poinciana Resort. I want to have my honeymoon here. And then I want to just stay.
There was a beautiful coral reef that we snorkeled. Many a back got sunburnt because we snorkeled for so long.
All of our meals were overlooking the beautiful blue water.
AND I did a pop up performance of my solo show (sevenlayersplay.com) which was a blast and such a treat to get to do.
My time in Tembok was the vacation I have never taken: lots of relaxing, communing with nature, feeling connected to ocean and having the experience of being totally content.

UBUD PART 2

WIFI CAFES, MUSEUMS, SPAS AND FIRE WATER

On the trip back to Ubud, we connected with amazing locals and the city itself. Museums, cafes, Nur Spa, more batiking followed by accidentally drinking fire water and being cleansed by holy water.
A perfect end to a perfect trip.

"THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE WATER."

STORY COMING SOON!

SUKSMA!

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